Act, issued by Frederick William I, Elector of Hesse [Present-day Germany]: “Israelites are precluded from any positions of teaching about the Christian religion. […] Those Israelites who trade in small goods, and who lack any business capital of their own, are precluded from holding any public office. […] Israelite children shall attend school from their seventh to their completed fourteenth year.”
Scheel, Friedrich [publ.]. Zusammenstellung der die Israeliten des vorhinnigen Kurfürstenthums Hessen betreffenden gesetzlichen Erlasse (Assortment of Decrees Concerning the Israelites in the State of Hesse). Scheel: Cassel, 1901. Page 36. Researched by Dominik Jacobs 3/16/2020